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Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… #7. Allaway, J., & Cox, P. (1989). 'Forests and competing land uses in Kenya', Environmental Management 13 (2):171-187 … Kenya are under heavy pressure from competing agricultural land uses and from unsustainable cutting. The problem is … agricultural input prices, household income levels, and tenure security affect deforestation — if at all — is …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… which a well-defined environmental service (ES) or form of land use likely to secure that service is bought by at least … 2). The IUCN adopts a broader definition: “an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and … FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… 19 4.5 Land-use planning and land ownership ................................. 21 4.6 Urban … including legislation on forestry, the environment, land-use planning, watershed protection and erosion control. … resources and addresses the consideration of land use, tenure patterns and local needs. The greening of appropriate …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… World Conservation Congress (WCC) held in Bangkok, Thai- land, from the 17th to the 25th of November 2004, the IUCN … Service advises FAO member countries – including forestry, land, water, fisheries, wildlife, food, biodiversity and … since the Act of Settlement of 1700 which guaranteed the tenure of the judges of our higher courts subject only to a …
Addressing the problems of access : Protecting sources, while giving users certainty
… acknowledge the difference between the owners of the land, from which the spec- imen is collected, the owner of … the genetic resource, or authorizes the entrance to the land where the resource is located or to the ex-situ … Applying conventional property law to genetic resources Tenure and ownership systems are not uniform across the …
The rise of environmental crime - A growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security
… destroyed, and nearly one million hectares of productive land (pastures and soybean) were embargoed. Correspondingly, … and radiation hazards, with negative impact on arable land, economic crops and trees.13 A broad understanding of … satellite monitoring; 2) Regular- ization of land use and tenure; 3) Incentives for sustainable economic activities …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… rights and governance for dryland water resources and land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Establish … of dealing with aridity and variability. This includes land management practices, such as cultivating … development interventions in the water sector and wider tenure of natural resources in dryland ecosystems. Future …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… can be regarded as a strategy for the management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation … of areas that are host to valuable biodiversity with local land-use needs through the delineation of core areas, buffer … land-use categories • addressing property rights and land-tenure issues • capturing benefits from ecosystem goods and …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… Lee Ellen Carter How protection took the beauty from the land: conflicting values and meanings of Lake Mburo National … other ways. We explained too that, while the Protected Land- scapes Task Force had begun to document these values1, … through community partnerships. Such lived-in and multiple-tenure contexts would almost certainly require creating …
Blue Carbon Policy Framework: Based on the discussion of the International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group
… National Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), the Land-Use, and some Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) activities including … national forest monitoring systems, as well as on land tenure issues; forest governance issues and gender …